Exponent II
A feminist forum for Mormon women and gender minority voices
Working to prove myself constantly is just in my bones. There is a fatigue that has started to seep into my days. How cliché, to be mid-life introspective with this birthday. The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
putting babies to bed the minutes are slow as history The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
The Mongolian word for zipper is “цахилгаан,” which also means electricity or lightning . . . Ironically, those unrelated words, electricity and zipper, became very related in the months and years that followed.
Beata’s Christmas Eve miracle was just part of a series of “truth is stranger than fiction” vignettes attached to my first trip to Poland. The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
Praise her like some kind of loon The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
To Be Fiskin: The Seawomen of IcelandBRYN NEENOS AS “BEELEE”June 4, 2024 The Icelandic trail dropped down into waving grasses and a protected ravine. The beach was awash in shades of black, gray, and bone white, stark against the emerging spring green at the edge of the boulder f…
Signs from the universe, it turns out, are multifaceted: sometimes silly, sometimes cruel
She is well known and loved as the first editor of the Exponent II. And yet, the story of Claudia Bushman is so much more than being a Founding Mother.
Navigating tension appears to be the heart of this open-themed collection.
This open-themed issue reveals the things our writers are thinking about, puzzling over, and processing without a specific prompt. Their voices invite us to reflect on what we, too, are going through at this individual yet collective moment in time.
One day will we meet in heaven? Will you condemn me or embrace me? I hope we can hold each other — in sadness, in joy, in fullness. The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
I can already see how my daughter’s body is barreling toward its inevitable conclusion, like my body barreled before hers and my mother’s body barreled before mine and her mother’s body barreled before hers The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now …